#midterms 2026

Representative Haley Stevens, Democrat of Michigan, in her official US House portrait, made in November 2018.

A Democratic congresswoman endorses the Republican in Michigan's Senate race, a day before the vote

The official US Senate portrait of Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, made in 2013, his first year in the chamber.

Senator Chris Murphy, 53, suffers a stroke and is moved to Johns Hopkins two days before the midterms

Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin, in October 2024.

Obama opens his midterm campaign in Cleveland and Detroit and calls Trump's White House "chaos and cruelty and corruption and incompetence"

The west facade of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court lets New Hampshire turn away student IDs at the polls, 12 days before the midterms

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the agency's headquarters in Washington, in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department asks a judge to set aside 20,000 California ballots, and Los Angeles County says the list is unreliable

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., in 2026.

Midterm elections

The Justice Department sues California to keep 20,000 mail ballots uncounted, 19 days before the midterms